Nearest Communities to Merriman,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Merriman, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Merriman:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small village in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Merriman is located in Cherry County.
The following 11 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cherry County: Blaine, Brown, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha, Sheridan, Thomas, Bennett (SD), Oglala Lakota (SD), Todd (SD) & Tripp (SD).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Merriman. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Cherry County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Merriman (which is Cherry County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Merriman
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Cherry County (where Merriman resides)
- County Website: www.co.cherry.ne.us/
- County Seat for Cherry: Valentine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Cherry County
- Nearest Communities to Merriman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merriman.
- Leat
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Eli
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east) - Irwin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Bayonne
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Cody
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cody have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cody
- Cody is located in Cherry County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 157 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cody <4>
- Nenzel
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenzel
- Nenzel is located in Cherry County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nenzel <4>
- Doughboy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doughboy
- Doughboy is located in Cherry County
- Sheridan County
- County Seat for Sheridan: Rushville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- Nearest Communities to Merriman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merriman.
- Gordon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
- Gordon is located in Sheridan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,486 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gordon <4>
- Albany ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Bennett County
- County Seat for Bennett: Martin (SD)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Bennett County
- Nearest Communities to Merriman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merriman.
- Martin
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
- Martin is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,058 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Martin <4>
- Tuthill
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuthill
- Tuthill is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tuthill <4>
- Swett ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swett
- Swett is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 283 people
- Black Eyes
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Eyes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Eyes
- Black Eyes is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Plenty Bears
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plenty Bears have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plenty Bears
- Plenty Bears is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Estimated population in 2014: 109 people
- Bad Wound
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Vetal
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vetal
- Vetal is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Patricia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Allen
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
- Allen is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Allen <4>
- Harrington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrington
- Harrington is located in Bennett County (SD)
- Oglala Lakota County
- County Website: oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Family Search:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of South Dakota
- Oglala Lakota County
- Nearest Communities to Merriman ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merriman.
- Batesland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Batesland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batesland
- Batesland is located in Oglala Lakota County (SD)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 113 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Batesland <4>
- Wakpamani
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Merriman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Merriman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9197, Longitude: -101.6999 |
| <2> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |